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bug#38693: 27.0.50; tab-bar: automatic tab names should be shortened
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#38693: 27.0.50; tab-bar: automatic tab names should be shortened |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Dec 2019 01:36:08 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> Dear emacs developers, Juri, per default tab-bar uses buffer
> names as tab labels. But these might be very looong:
I've never seen that long buffer name before.
This reminds Guinness Book record for the longest name :)
> Please provide an option to dynamically shorten at least
> automatic tab labels in order not to overflow the tab bar into
> another line OR provide an option with sensible default for the
> max length of automatic tab labels (e.g. 23 characters per tab
> label would allow for at least 3 tabs on a 80 char terminal) OR
> something to such effect.
Maybe such a new option:
(defcustom tab-bar-tab-name-max 23
and using it on the default values of tab-bar-tab-name-current,
tab-bar-tab-name-current-with-count, tab-bar-tab-name-all?